Protective pocket



C. C. WAIS.

PROTECTIVE POCKET.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I, I918.

Patented Sept. 7, 1920.

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C. C. WAIS.

PROTECTIVE POCKET.

APPLlCATION FILED our. I, 1918.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. WAIS, OE CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CARL SCHWERIN,

OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

PROTECTIVE POCKET.

Specification of Letters'latent.

Patented Sept. *7, 1920.

Application filed October 1, 1918. Serial No. 256,426.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Crmnnns C. Wars, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in Protective Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to protective pockets. The object of my invention is to provide a pocket so constructed that theft therefrom, or cutting of the pocket, is made extremely ditlicult or impossible. It is the object of my invention further to provide an improved pocket so constructed that an attempt to gain access to the contents of the same will draw the attention of the wearer to such attempt.

My invention consists in providing an inner protective pocket and a separate closing flap for closing the same received within an outer pocket; further, in providing novel limiting means for limiting access to the inner or protective pocket; and, further, in providing the inner pocket with a wall provided with novel means for preventing cutting of the pocket. further readily understood from the following description and claims, and from the drawings, in which latter:

Figure 1 represents an outer side elevation of my improved device, parts being partly broken away for better illustration of the interior of the device.

Fig. 2 is an inside side elevation of my improved device, with parts broken away for better illustration of the interior of the pocket.

Fig. 3 is a central vertical cross-section of my improved device, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1, showing the parts in distended relation; and, 1

Fig. 4 is ahorizontal cr0ss-section, taken in the plane of the line 44 of Fig. 3, showing the pockets closed.

11 represents so much of the garment as' is necessary to illustrate my invention. The garment may be instanced as trousers. 12 represents oneof the rear pockets thereof. The rear pocket is shown provided with flap, exemplified as an upwardly extending flap 13, preferably arranged to be closed by a fastening comprising a knob 14 and a socket 15, forming a snap fastening, the knob being on a knob-piece 16, and the socket being in asocket-piece 17 re pee The invention will be.

tively suitably secured to the goods forming the trousers and the flap. The flap may if desired be a downwardly extending flap extending downwardly over the mouth of the pocket.

The composite pocket comprises an outer wall 21, and an inner wall 22, suitably seamed around the side edges and the bottom by means of a seam 23.

Intermediate walls 24, 25, are provided, preferably seamed to the outer wall and the inner wall by means of said side seams and bottom seam 23. The intermediate wall 24 coacts with the outer wall 21 for forming an outer pocket 26, and'the intermediate wall 25 coacts with the inner wall 22 to form the inner or protective pocket 27.

The intermediate wall 25 is provided with means to render'the cutting of the same unlikely, shown as comprising eyelets 30, preferably of metal, which are secured to the intermediate wall, preferably quite close together. They are shown arranged in rows, the eyelets of proximate rows being in oil'- set relations. The eyelets also form ventilating means for the. pockets.

A suitable number of metal strips 31, 32, are preferably provided in said intermediate walls, the strips 31 being horizontally disposed, and the strips 32 being vertically disposed. These strips may be of wire and suitably sewed in place, as by tacking stitches 33. Their ends are connected as loops 34.

The upper ends of the intermediate walls are preferably provided across their top with a resilient reinforcing strip 35, which may be a strip of whalebone, steel, or the like, received in a channel 36, in the upper ends of said walls, formed by seams 37, 38.

Cross-strips 41, 42, are provided across the mouth of the protective pocket, these crossstrips being secured at one of their ends to the front wall of the protective pocket, and at the other ends to a base strip 43, extend ing crosswise of the rear wall of the pocket. These cross-strips are preferably elastic strips, for instance, elastic webbing, and extend across the mouth of the inner or pro tective pocket in separated relation at a point preferably distanced from the side ends of said pocket.

Fastenings are provided for the protective pocket, exemplified as snap fastenings 45, 46, respectively comprising a knob 47, and

a socket 48, the knob being on a knob-piece 4L9, and the socket in a socket-piece 50, forming a snap-fastening. The knob-piece is secured to the base-strip, and the socketpieee is secured to the intermediate walls, both these pieces being preferably secured to the resilient cros "-strips.

A flap 53 is arranged to close the protec tive pocket, and is sewed to the inner wall of the pocket, as by means of a seam 54. This flap is preferably a downwardly projecting flap, when the flap is closed, and is provided with a fastening means, instanced as comprising a knob 56 and a socket 57, the

knob being on a knob-piece 58, and the socket in a socket-piece 59, forming a snap 'lastening.

The knob-piece is shown secured to the intermediate walls of the pockets, and the socketpiece is shown secured to the inner flap.

The inner flap is normally closed, and the outer pocket may be used in ordinary manner, the hand, when the outer flap is opened, slipping into the outer pocket past the inner flap. The inner flap is preferably located below the level of the upper end of the mouth of the outer pocket, so that the same is usually out of View even it the outer pocket is open.

Access to the protective pocket can be had only by opening the outer flap of the outer pocket, then opening the inner flap of the inner pocket, the latter flap preferably extending in a direction opposite to the outer flap, then releasing the fastenings which secure the resilient end of the intermediate wall in closed relation, and then entering the hand into the inner or protective pocket, this entrance being resisted by the elastic crossstrips at the mouth of the inner pocket, so as to create a resistance and a pressure on the person of the wearer, if an attempt should be made to enter the hand into the inner pocket.

The construction is such that entrance of the hand into the'protective pocket is extremely diflicult, and by devious ways, and as the result of passing obstructing parts, so that a surreptitio s attempt to enter the hand into the protective pocket would. cause notice thereof to be conveyed to the wearer, owing to the various manipulations and pressures necessary to enter the hand into the protective pocket.

The outer protective wall of the protective pocket further prevents a cutting into the protective pocket, as the cutting instrument, whether a knife or scissors, would be met by the metal eyelets, metal rods and upper resilient strip, so as toprotect the contents of the protective pocket, and also call attention of the wearer to any attempt made to cut the protective pocket.

The protective pocket parts may be readily r made as'separate elements for insertion in usual-or ordinary pocket. "W hen so made, the parts that areassembled consist of the rear base-stripe8, the elastic cross-strip L1, 42, the intermediate walls 24, 25, connected together atthe tops by means of the seams 37, 38, forming the channel 36, and the re silient strip 35 therein. The base strip is sewed to the rear wall of what would otherwise constitute the ordinary poeket as by seams 60 at the top, bottom and ends the strip. The rear wall and the front wall and the intermediate walls are sewed together by means of the side seams and the bottom seam 23, hereinbefore mentioned.

The inner flap provided for the protective pocket is sewed at its top to this upper wall of the slit formed in the'body of the trousers, by means of the seam 54. The outer flap 13 is formed by" a flap-piece 61, which is sewed at its bottom to the bottom wall of the slit formed in the body of the trousers, by means of a seam 62, the outer flap-piece extending upwardly to cover the inner flap. The ends of this outer flap-piece are sewed to the body 0t the trousers by means of cross-seams 63, extending above the seam 62 and the inner flap 53.

The outer ply of the goods of which the inner flap is constructed is the same as the outer ply of the goods of which the trousers is constructed so that when the outer pocket is opened, the inner flap appears as the usual upper edging tor a usual trousers pocke,

this usual upper edging being composed of the trousers goods.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: V

1. In a device or" the character described, the combination of an outer pocket, an inner protective pocket having a mouth arranged to be entered through the mouth of said outer pocket, spaced-apart crossstrips extending across said mouth of said inner protective pocket, said cross-strips spaced from the respective ends of said inner protective pocket, and a flap for said mouth of said inner protective pocket.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination of an outer pocket, an inner protective pocket having a mouth arranged to be entered through the mouth of said outer pocket, spaced-apart elastic crossstrips extending across saidmouth of said inner protective pocket, a flap for said mouth of said outer pocket and a flap for said mouth of said inner protective pocket within said mouth of said outer pocket.

3; In a device of the character described, the combination of an outer pocket, aninner protective pocket, said pockets comprising an intermediate partition. a resilient strip along the u er edge of said partition, cross-strips across the mouth of said inner protective pocket, the outer ends of said cross-strips secured to said partition, and a flap across said mouth of said inner protective pocket.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination of protective pocket parts comprising an upper inner base-strip arranged for attachment to the rear Wall of a pocket, a partition, eyeiets set close together in said partition, a resilient guard strip along the upper edge of said partition, and cross-strips between said basestrip and said resilient guard-strip.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination of protective pocket parts comprising an upper inner basestrip arranged for attachment to the rear wall of a pocket, a partition, eyelets set close together in' said partition, a resilient guard-strip along the upper edge of said partition, cross strips between said base-strip and said re silient guard-strip and means at said crossstrip for releasably securing said resilient guard-strip and said base-strip together.

6. In a device of the character described, the combination of an outer pocket, an inner protective pocket, said pockets comprising an intermediate partition, a resilient guardstrip along the upper edge of said partition spaced-apart cross-strips across the mouth of said inner protective pocket spaced from the respective ends of said mouth, the respective ends of said cross-strips secured to the rear wall of said inner protective pocket and said partition, snap fastenings between said rear wall and said partition at said cross-strips, and a flap for said mouth within the mouth of said outer pocket. 4

7. In a device of the character described, the combination of an outer pocket, an inner protective pocket, said pockets comprising an intermediate partition, eyelets set close together in said partition, cutterresistant strips extending crosswise of said partition, a resilient strip extending along the upper end of said partition, spacedapart elastic strips extending across, the mouth of said inner protective pocket spaced from the respective ends of said mouth, a flap to close said mouth within the mouth of said outer pocket, and a flap to close the mouth of said outer pocket.

8. In a device of the character described, the combination of an outer pocket comprising an outer wall, an inner protective pocket comprising an inner wall, said pockets comprising an intermediate partition, cutter-resistant means set close together in said partition, a resilient strip along the upper end of said partition, spaced-apart elastic strips extending across the mouth of said inner protective pocket spaced from the respective ends of said mouth, the respective ends of said elastic strips secured respectively to said inner wall and to said partition proximate to said resilient strip, snap fastenings between said inner wall and said partition at said crossstrips and said resilient strip, a flap received over said mouth of said inner protective pocket into said outer pocket, a snap fastening between said flap and said partition, and a flap to close said outer pocket.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of'two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES (J. WAIS.

Witnesses:

DAWSON E. BRADLEY, THERESA M. SILBER. 

